While there were benefits of his disclosures, the negatives might not exceed the benefits. Would we (normal Americans) have ever realized that this effort of spying was going on? Probably not - of course we could have blissfully gone about our ways and cared not...until something else brought it up.
Heros are folks I would hold in much higher regard than this fellow but can understand your point! Hero’s today are not the heros of yesterday...Something society has brought to us.
Just stepping out saying something is enough. There are a lot of people that we label as heroes who are not heroes at all.
I have major problem with the government spying on law-abiding citizens. We have constitutional rights and protections. We need to stand by the entire ‘Bill of Rights’!
I mean we wouldn’t have as many terrorists in this country if A) the government secured our borders, B) respected our own laws, and C) didn’t treat its own native born citizens like crap.
I love my country and what it is about but I question the government quite a bit. The only way we are going to stay free is if we stand by our laws and call out members of both parties who are in violating of it.
Too often more or not, we have abandoned principle in favor of power.